Dewing v. J.B. Driscoll Insurance Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concern for reducing congestion in court dockets must not come at the expense of justice
• error to dismiss where no action taken for over three years but no showing of prejudice or willful delay
• abuse of discretion to dismiss case where plaintiff waited over three years for trial to be scheduled without taking further action
• judge abused discretion in dismissing for lack of prosecution where plaintiff completed discovery, manifested intention to go to trial, and was merely awaiting trial date
• trial court erred by dismissing case with prejudice in the absence of “willful delay or default by the plaintiff or serious prejudice to the defendant”
• party filed written opposition to motion to dismiss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).